‘Eruditio Musica, Air sung by Madame Colin’

Andriessen and his family regularly attended concerts by the Eruditio Musica Orchestra in the High German Theatre in Amsterdam. On this evening, Joseph Haydn’s The Seasons was performed, a musical composition that at that time was not even eight years old. A certain ‘Madame Colin’ sang a solo. The audience’s casual mood is striking. Two gentlemen converse in the left foreground, while another one steps unabashedly over a bench at the right.